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Topic: Speedometer HELP !! (Read 5404 times)

I recently took off the entire dash and cleaned and refinished it and put it back into place over the weekend. Unfortunatly, I noticed that the speedometer was pointing straight down as opposed to the zero mark.

I have three questions.

1. did I break something internal in the actual speedometer or will this fix itself when I get the car moving again?

2. Actually it has always been "off" by about 12 MPH. If I drive the car and the speedometer shows 67, then I'm actually going 55. How do I adjust this is the above question is not a major problem?

3. I noticed when I detached the cable from the speedometer, my transmission leaked. did this loosen the connection to the side of the transmission and do I need to do anyhting special to ensuree it does not lean any more?

I just reattached everything last night and hopfully reattaching the cable stopped the leak??

thanks a ton for any help. I hope I dont need to replace the speedometer !!

Thanks for the link. so far it seems a mystery that usually has a few factors. Now my biggest problem is that the transmission is dripping like a slow fauct from the speedo cable entry into the tranny? it started , as I mentioned in my first post when I seperated the cable from the back of the actual speedometer. I just thought I may have created a gap at the entrance to the tranny (TH-350). but I reconnected the cable and the drip is actually worse??

crazy, is it possoble to tighten this assembly? I've lost so much fluid, i might as well drain the rest and refill the tranny since I had planned to do this later?. never have done this before and tranny's make me really nervous?

Not sure on the auto, but the manual has an o-ring in the end the pushes into the housing. Make sure that the o-ring is still there. Also make sure that it is seated all the way into the case. There is a bolt and a retaining "clamp" that secure the cable to the trans.

NAPA should be able to get it for you if they don't have it in stock. I learned about two years ago from one of their area reps. that they actually have a classic car division. You just don't hear anything about it, and some local dealers don't know unless you ask. Some of their stuff they call "vintage".